Tag: Real Presence
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Transubstantiation: What vs. How vs. Why
Take and eat the Body of Christ broken for you. Take and drink the Blood of Christ shed for you.
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Reading DW #5: Where Are We on the Eucharist?
Perhaps the most hopeful section of the document, the agreement on the Eucharist that has been reached by the dialogues over fifty years is nuanced, careful, and generous.
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Eucharistic Adoration consultation at Saint John’s University
These women have been through periods of spiritual dryness, suffered with problems of self-image, experienced great joy, and read many books. Their spiritualities are diverse, but all generous and realistic, even practical. They go to adoration to enhance their discernment of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist, and to develop their intimate and personal…
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Real Presence: surprising consensus
Most U.S. Christians, Protestant and Catholic, believe in the Real Presence.
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What does the mouse… er, ah, uhm… the dog eat?
If “the mouse or dog does not touch Christ’s body in its proper species, but only as to its sacramental species,” what’s the big deal if a dog is given communion?
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Seven Theses on Current Discussions of the Doctrine of the Real Presence
A spiritually fruitful attitude toward various proposed explanations of the Real Presence, including contemporary ones, would be to draw inspiration from them all, though they are all inadequate.